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Neil James Napier Hawke

Born: 27 June 1939, Cheltenham, Adelaide, South Australia
Died: 25 December 2000, North Adelaide, South Australia
Major Teams: Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Australia.
Known As: Neil Hawke
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium Fast


Test Debut: Australia v England at Sydney, 5th Test, 1962/63
Last Test:
Australia v England at Lord's, 2nd Test, 1968

Western Australia 1959-60
South Australia 1960-61 to 1967-68
Tasmania 1968-69
Australia to England 1964, 1968
Australia to India and Pakistan 1964-65
Australia to West Indies 1965
Australia to South Africa 1966-67
Rest of the World to West Indies 1966-67
Cavaliers to England 1969
Commonwealth XI to Pakistan 1970-71

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   27   37  15   365   45*  16.59   0   0    9   0

                    Balls    M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling              6974  238  2677   91  29.41  7-105   6   1  76.6  2.30

FIRST-CLASS
 (career: 1959/60 - 1969)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  145  198  57  3383  141*  23.99   1  11   85   0

                       R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10
Bowling            12088  458  26.39  8-61   23   5

LIST A LIMITED OVERS
 (career: 1964 - 1964)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding    1    0   -     -    -     -      -     -   -    0   0

                    Balls     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling                36    32    0    -     -      0   0    -   5.33

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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Hawke, one of very few players to represent three states, came into the West Australian team in the season of 1959-60 but found it hard to command a regular place in the side. In the following season, he made the move over to South Australia and immediately became a valued member of the team playing in the winning South Australian Shield team of 1963-64. He made his Test match debut in the fifth and final game of the 1962-63 series against England at Sydney and went on to play 27 Tests for Australia, taking 91 wickets at 29.41.

He was also a very accomplished footballer in South Australia and Western Australia and, as a journalist, later wrote for The News and The Sunday Mail. He also worked as a television broadcaster on Sheffield Shield matches for Channel Nine. As a Test cricketer, Hawke's efforts weren't restricted purely to bowling. He made important contributions with the bat and, in particular, will be remembered for scoring a vital 37 during a partnership of 105 for the eighth wicket with Peter Burge in the 1964 Leeds Test. The stand proved crucial, helping Australia recover from a scoreline of 7/178 (in reply to England's 268) and assisting it to the only result of the series.

He finished that series with eighteen wickets at 27.55 (including 6/47 at The Oval) and later collected another twenty-four wickets at 21.83 on tour in West Indies in 1965 on pitches far from suited to his type of bowling. His Test best with the willow came in the opening match of that series where he made an unbeaten 45 in the first innings of the First Test at Kingston on a wicket described in Wisden 1966 as "a pitch of erratic bounce".

Towards the end of his first class career, "Hawkeye" spent many years in the confines of the Lancashire League. He played for Nelson in 1967 and 1969 and for East Lancashire from 1971 to 1974.

For the last twenty years of his life he suffered greatly from poor health, which he suffered with great courager and fortitude, before passing away on Christmas Day 2000 (LC, 2000)

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